There’s a buzz of activity during the typical day at the Candy Factory in Lancaster, which is hosting a Community Festival on Friday.

Or a transplanted actor from New York might be rehearsing some lines before heading to a Candy Factory Chill Club night happy hour on the sixth floor of the building’s tower.

The Studio at Candy Factory – the former space of a rehabilitation center located directly across from the parking lot of the original space – adds another 13 offices, two conferences rooms a brainstorming area nicknamed the “War room” with dry-erase boards for walls, a podcast recording studio and a space for a massage therapist.

The Candy Factory – a coworking campus at 342 N. Queen St. – has over 200 members and, according to founder Anne Kirby, about 120 people from Lancaster, Lititz, York, Harrisburg and elsewhere enter the building on any given day.

Kirby, wearing a shirt that reads “Cowork – Because Working Alone Sucks,” is busy, just like the Candy Factory.

With so many fun and exciting things happening at once during the first Community Festival – celebrating nine years of coworking at the Candy Factory – it might not seem that different from an average day in the space.

People also can check out the first-ever art show featuring art work by some of the creatives at Candy Factory in the gallery located at the new Studio at the Candy Factory space.